<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >change_file_permissions</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="makethumbs documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="makethumbs variable reference" HREF="r15.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="boilerplate_insert_in_head" HREF="r245.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="columns" HREF="r321.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >makethumbs documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r245.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r321.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="REF.CHANGE_FILE_PERMISSIONS" ></A ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >change_file_permissions</CODE ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN294" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >change_file_permissions</CODE > -- controls whether <B CLASS="COMMAND" >makethumbs</B > will change the permissions on files</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN299" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" > change_file_permissions=1 </PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN301" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > When creating HTML files or images, <B CLASS="COMMAND" >makethumbs</B > will change the permissions on the created files so they are readable by the web server process. This is normally the correct thing to do—if you have a restrictive <B CLASS="COMMAND" >umask</B > set but your files need to be world-readable for them to be visible via the web server. </P ><P > <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >change_file_permissions</CODE > is a boolean variable; set it to <KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >0</KBD > to make <B CLASS="COMMAND" >makethumbs</B > leave your file permissions alone. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN310" ></A ><H2 >See also</H2 ><P > <A HREF="r583.html" > <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >file_readable_permissions</CODE ></SPAN ></SPAN > </A > , <A HREF="r545.html" > <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >dir_transversible_permission</CODE ></SPAN ></SPAN > </A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r245.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r321.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_insert_in_head</CODE ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r15.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >columns</CODE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >